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U.S. Bans Some Livestock Feed
To Avert Mad-Cow Disease

WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration, fearing a replay of Britain's mad-cow disease epidemic in the U.S., has decided to sharply curtail the recycling of waste animal protein into livestock feed.

By some estimates, such a move could cost the animal-rendering industry at least $1 billion a year. The industry points out that not a single case of the disease affecting cattle or of a new variant of the disease affecting humans has been confirmed in this country.